skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People say this a lot, but I really don't think it's a very satisfying explanation for having miles of one lane of a highway barricaded for weeks or months without any workers or equipment in sight, ever.

The problem is that both the workers and the equipment are short in supply.

The cause of that is the lack of continuity in politics. Construction machines and staff training can easily reach dozens of millions of euros in cost - particularly when it's rail related. It would be financial suicide for any company outside of extremely large conglomerates to take on that risk without politics providing the guarantee of at least 20 years worth of projects to recoup that investment. Instead, the US is down to "we can barely plan for the next fiscal year" timeframe, and Europe to "we can barely plan 5 years until the next EU fiscal cycle, add national election cycles and you're down to 1-2 years as well". On top of that come government accounting clusterfucks - basically, the norm is that it is very difficult to transfer budgets from one year to the next, and when you don't use all your budget for whatever reason, next year's budget will be cut back.
I am confused by the use of the term dog whistle in this context. Can you point out the dog whistles in the GP post?
(I'm not the person who commented before, but) I don't personally know much about the sulfur situation, and your comment plus another user's have made me decide to read up on it later today to learn more.

Since your first comment showed a complete lack of understanding / belief of misinformation about climate change, I would suggest making an effort to learn about it yourself rather than deciding to be happy not understanding and dismissing those who are well informed as just having different views on the world.
I think it does imply an origin in this context. If I said "Apple collects your location data" and it turns out they were buying it from a data broker, and not, well, collecting it from their devices, I would feel misled.
What's the behavior of this piece of code according to the spec? You can choose any C/C++ spec:

void f() {
char x[100];
gets(x);
}
It’s a law of managerial capitalism that serious success at any firm will first create a culture of executives and managers who compete for company teats and later a company of vultures, pecking at the carcass of the mother the executives and managers drained of life. So if you want interesting work in a healthy environment, you might look for struggling firms that want to improve their fortunes.
They say don't roll your own encryption protocol (if something similar or same already exists and it's maintained), but these guys just can't resist.

Using a secure decentralized messenger to share a download (or upload) location on a Hidden S3 Service or one of those decentralized S3 services can't possibly be worse than this.

To commenter in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289777: BitMessage doesn't solve anything, it uses broadcast and Bitcoin peer nodes that first get the message know where it came from. And BitMessage is not an illegal content hazard of any kind (what a ridiculous statement!).
I don't know why but Rust's syntax just nails it for me. The more I use it the more I appreciate it. I see many projects that diverge from Rust's syntax while being inspired by it. Why ?
A language learning WhatsApp Chatbot for improving Speaking
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Specifically :
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What makes you think the West will allow Chinese made chips into their countries?
it's funny

a: there are companies that don't need AI and use it for hype

b: and there are companies that desperately need it and don't use it

if you had to choose between them, a is still better :D

it's annoying, but we can't escape this. if it sells, it sells
Having a small remaining probability of error is not a problem at all, if it's small enough. There are always potential sources of failures (such as a meteorite crashing on your server). If the probability of one source is dwarfed by others then it doesn't matter.
It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked deck of genius non-egostical binary tree inverters.

There's not a more pragmatic measure of whether somebody can code than a track record of a successful code project used by other coders.
China basically blocks most Western tech from their country and you think it’s “nuts”?

Parity trade barriers back in the 90’s probably would have avoided this whole mess.
I cannot argue with the premise; if I were someone else I'd be someone else.

But I suspect my #1 concern would be earning enough to get an air conditioner and #2 would be that no war breaks out that would threaten the ability to run it.
Large scale multiplayer Four Stage Strategy is basically Existential Chicken. You keep doing the most profitable thing, in the hope that your competitors care more about the continued existence of the commons than you do, and so become comparatively less competitive.
>West will always have the upper hand

Every major western semi partner currently projecting talent shortage of 100,000s in 5-10+ year time frame. VS PRC at ~500k/700k of domestic IC talent they think they need for indigenous industry according to 2018 white paper (IIRC same year they started prioritizing talent production to first-level discipline), and now academic system is generating ~30k IC talent per year. TLDR is everyone maybe making improvements, but PRC uniquely positioned to have requisit talent to catchup/exceed, and have advantage of coordinating entire semi industrial base in single jurisdiction. Semi talent development is still one area where west is actively dropping ball, and unless TSMC Arizona sort out their worker/cultural drama, might continue to if west can't elevate semi to desirable career.
Since we're on HN and you mention California, it's worth noting that with a good job in tech 2/3/4 disappear, leaving only 1 (which is still very nice).
Cliche is why people love it. We’ve become an overly analyzed, postmodernist hellscape with our media. A lot of people really want to see cute anime Waifus acting stereotypically. They really want to see it, badly.

They also like when women start to take notice and dress like the anime characters do. Women love anime because the men in anime usually look very attractive, and in the fujoshi anime that they often watch, the men are willing to be gay.
So, the AI analysis uses a huge amount of energy, and DAITA also uses surplus energy. Quite a sad time we are heading into :(
We're all upside down here and the blood rushes to our heads.

While living in the antipodes gives most of us genius level intelligence, it also prevents interpersonal relationships.

It's a trade off unfortunately.

If you live down under and want more friends, you need to do head stands for long periods to reduce the over oxygenated brain symptoms.
Yeah, but if the sanctions cut off Russia <- US import path, but then Russia and China established Russia <- China <- US import path, it makes some sense for the US to cut off the China <- US leg.
Show HN: I made a site to post your last-minute needs and find last-minute deals
I created LastMinuteHero.co because sometimes life happens, and we need last-minute help or need to find last-minute deals.
You're all not getting it.

They only want to see somebody who can get working code and a glimpse of their thought process. But from 100s of mediocre examples, the better coder will have a "better thought process."

Same goes for dating. Of course people will swear up and down they "only consider personality." Turns out, they've met 10 other people with a better personality than you.

Just because they're "only looking for x" doesn't mean they'll accept anybody that clears the bar.

The ultimate read between the lines though is that "oh I'm only looking for xyz, nothing superhuman" in a process where you have 10,000 competitors and applicants will still require high performance on your part. It's just a nicety, a meaningless phrase.
I think about this more than I probably should, but people have always had hope for the future in spite of certain (personal) doom. In some sense it's just the human condition. I do wonder how people will behave if/when more and more come to the same conclusion.
It’s not imbecilic, it’s actually a very real effect.

If you want to innovate, why bother in Europe? Taxes are high, VC funding is impossible, the workforce is going to spend half the time working as an American.

A friend of mine tried to start a startup in Germany and he said his only option to raise money was to go to a bank for a loan, which would only be approved if he had a profitable company.

He moved to the US.
Climate change isn't binary. If we limit it to 2-3C that's a lot less suffering, war and devastation than 4-5C. And I think we have a shot at achieving that thanks to the miracle of economies of scale driven cost declines we are seeing with renewables and batteries.
> Also, it’s not like floods are a recent phenomenon.

There is a type of mind that just deletes inconvenient parts of a piece of information.

"500 year floods are happening every 10 years" becomes "500 year floods happen".

"every summer is the hottest on record" becomes "every summer is hot".
> I wish I were so optimistic, I think we are truly screwed and there's pretty much no safe place on earth.

Yeah. But that isn't that unusual in the human experience. In fact, that was the default state of play for pretty much the period from 1900 (conditions become ripe for world wars) -> 1990 (end of the pressing nuclear threat of the cold war). The start date can be dragged back in time if you include the risk of being overrun by Europeans which was a substantial global concern and from which there was no escaping.
People are a resource. You could have the next Einstein or Norman Borlaug.
I think there are some sort of "buy American" restrictions for many US infrastructure projects.
With XMP many motherboards effectively overclock ram out of the box.
Not really what you're asking for, but Sacramento's "Fix 50"[0] project is a currently ongoing development project where I can offer some commentary as a citizen who has no knowledge or expertise in this field.

In total honesty, I'm challenged in seeing how there was much in the way of due safety planning performed.

In certain framings, accidents and deaths have more-than doubled during construction[1]. The extreme amount of hyperfocus one (and all the other drivers around them) has to exercise in order to cope with the super-confusing lane changes and dodging other drivers not paying attention to the partial repavement lines completely deviating from the actual lanes, and short ramps, (and much worse when driving against the sun) is mind-boggling and renders the local headlines (even if sensationalist) unsurprising.

[0]: https://www.fix50.com/

[1]: https://archive.ph/8vmzu
On less than $100 USD per month? Not much.
Seeing Mads Torgersen on the list of collaborators for this made me take this seemingly random blog post 100x more seriously.
Because it obviously is just delaying the problem ? And air pollution isn't just about temperature, it's what you and every living thing breath, and it's a factor of ocean acidification which is a major problem...

Also:

> the 2020 regulations to cut air pollution from shipping is to increase global temperatures by around 0.05C by 2050.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...

Again idk what your sources are but they seem to over simplify things so much that they end up not making any sense whatsoever

Here are some things you might want to read, it's much more complex than what the average people debate on twitter and other cesspools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedbacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost#Climate_change_feed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...
That is globally correct, yes.

Some schools of training were maintaining for a long time that the process was fairly black and white, and that both systems should be trained separately, or else you would loose the training benefit of either.. Nature is rarely so stubbornly segregated, and, as it turns out, mixed training is perfectly fine.

Aerobic training will help you increase your anaerobic threshold, but training slightly above the threshold can be more efficient at increasing that threshold, if you are fit enough to recover from the lactic build-up before your next training. (Or if you have the luxury to increase your resting period so that you are fully recovered before you train again)

Anaerobic training will improve your anaerobic tolerance, but a good aerobic base will also help you improve your anaerobic tolerance, as your body will become more efficient at recycling the lactic acid back into ATP, delaying the moment when your muscles will be too saturated to function at the required level.

In general, while exercising, your muscles are using both ATP production means, aerobic and anaerobic. So, once more, you can see that by going slightly above your lactate threshold (but still with a good aerobic energy contribution) you are also contributing to improve your anaerobic tolerance, by staying longer in a range where your body needs to work harder to deal with the excess lactic build up. (Longer than a "pure" anaerobic training that cannot be sustained)
I listened to a podcast about it ages ago, and if my memory serves me correctly - the book was started first but wasn't finished until after the movie had been completed. Kubrick couldn't wait for Clarke to finish the book, so he carried on with the production of the movie. I think Clarke wanted to release the book first, but Kubrick wasn't going to wait for him!
I think GP meant, US companies can't have competition on the European market.
Many of those cities are compromised of enormously large areas though. Chongqing is larger than the country of Austria and has a population density of 390 people per square km. London has a population density of 15000 people per square km.

There are still a lot of big cities and huge city centres but the Chinese meaning of city often includes the metropolitan area plus rural hinterland.
You forgot the last dragon chronicles by Chris D’Lacy. I love me some books about magical clay dragons and that the main characters love interest is a goth witch.

Plus you learn a whole lot of words that start with G: Gadzooks! Gollygosh! Etc
I read it the same way you did. But, I’d be really surprised if there was no stack allocation in the language, given the author’s experience.
Guy cuts rear cycle wheel in half and runs on two halves – just watch
Lightweight Dillo browser revived: TLS but no JavaScript
As a C++ user, shared_ptr is great for some things, but it is an anti-pattern. Shared_ptr<const T> is much much better. The problem is that shared_ptr<T> isn’t value-semantic and so destroys local reasoning. That said, there are places for it, but it’s very easy to make a mess with it.

I’m a huge gain of stlab::copy_on_write<T>, which is fundamentally very similar but which is value-semantic, doesn’t let you make loops, and gives You local reasoning.
What’s better than upper atmosphere sulphur?
C# nails this consistently, it's not worth hand waving it away because it isn't FOSS. Rust drama itself suggests that a FOSS language doesn't shield it from corporate meddling.
employers have HR, employees have unions. HR is corporate police. employers hate the idea of having employee police.
I guess his implication is that TikTok is intentionally distorting opinion. But how do we know public opinion on TikTok isn’t what the baseline would be, and the rest of US public opinion isn’t the one being intentionally influenced?

I am for the divestiture (US media should be controlled by Americans) but it does raise questions.
Ted Nelson's critiques are good. Tech/Culture needs critics. Ted also tried being a culture-tech builder, and Xanadu just didn't work out. Despite several attempts, lots of resources spent...

Its ideas probably influenced Twitter. Because they were good ideas. Could've been independently discovered in the Platonic space of ideal tech-powered media too...

Yes, great social collaboration happens on Twitter. A bunch of inane squabbling and criminal threats too.
If businesses go out of business from paying taxes, maybe they shouldn’t be in business. This isn’t a problem in the EU where countries border other countries and sales tax varies from 6-19-24%… so clearly this is a delusional problem that doesn’t actually exist.
> There wasn't a "bad deal grandfathered"

It's a grandfathered deal from the formation of the EASA. Before that, most national aviation authority in europe didn't have the ability to check all planes, so they accepted others'; while the FAA checked the planes of everyone. When the EASA was formed, we kept that part.
US State Department documents suggest Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan
It feels hard to avoid. You need scale to make the project viable: a single small redevelopment in a run down area is unappealing, but if you do the whole block, that's a different story.

There are probably more opportunities after the initial redevelopment for smaller scale additions.
> Seems like the wrong problem to solve. "Systems programming" is hard, and should be hard, for reasons unrelated to the programming language used. Something like Rust which forces you to constantly reevaluate your design before you even press the compile button, is ideal.

I was recently musing about this on Mastodon[0], commenting on a tweet that said something to the effect of "C++ isn't complex, it just doesn't lie about the complexity of reality". I think Rust is similar, and really any system language has too be. However, there's a space between lying about reality and fully reflecting reality where useful abstractions, such as Rust's lifetimes live. If you hardline the "lying about reality" framing, any abstractions on top of machine code must be ruled out. So while I see where you are coming from, I think lots of space to improve system programming, as Rust did.

> What's really lacking are safe, easy, strong typed general purpose languages that can leverage AOT compilation for high performance and static analysis etc. A language with the learning curve of Python, near C performance and strong safety guarantees of Rust. There is nothing that suggests to me such a language would not be possible. Swift and C# come closest but they are warped by their respective corporate overlords.

I agree about Swift fitting this mold, it's unfortunate that it has failed to gain traction outside of Apple's ecosystem.

0: https://infosec.exchange/@k0nserv/112399102914339131
Show HN: I built a tool to automate SEO cross-linking of my articles
I'm a lazy person. Especially when it comes to repetitive tasks that I can automate. And since I've started writing regularly this annoying repetitive task for me was the SEO. Every time I add a new essay I need to figure out how to cross-link it from all of the other of my articles, and the more I write the harder it becomes to find suitable essays.

So how does it work you ask? Great that you asked:

1. You as a customer register and add your domain, Trial period starts.

2. The tool automagically finds your sitemap.xml (hopefully it will be at domain.com/sitemap.xml otherwise the automagic wont work)

3. Then the tool indexes the content, extracts keywords, does some more magic to understand which link goes where.

4. The tool generates links in the database that you can delete/modify.

5. You receive a small JS snippet that you need to add to the footer that will transform the relevant keywords into a link to some other page that is highly relevant.

6. Set up and forget, and reap the benefits of improved SEO.

The whole tool is built with Python, I have automated CI/CD with Github, I host on DigitalOcean (because I still got some balance there), I use some algorithms that I found on the internet to extract keywords + I use some algorithms that I found on the internet to extract content, even if it's not an article-type page (this was quite an annoying challenge to solve, but very rewarding). Everything is combined with some LLM magic and vector database for search / comparison.

I've already gotten some beta users testing the software, which is quite surprising. Apparently there are AI directories that are scanning the Twitterverse for AI tools, and you can get onto this directory and they will send traffic to you for free. (Though someone gave me a one star rating, because the onboarding failed with an 500 error, thank god I saw that in sentry and fixed quickly. Rookie bug, but it works!)

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I'm mostly looking for feedback on all aspects — tech, improvements, ideas, vision, marketing, positioning.

What do you think?

Cheers,
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Common pejorative terms used by the right to whip up anger on their side against opponents:

"activists" as a slur.

"pushing ... agendas" for those seeking change (see for instance the famous "gay agenda").

"authoritarian" for anything vaguely regulatory.

TBH these aren't dog whistles anymore because everyone has heard them enough to know what is being implied.
Despite everything going on we're in a better place than we've ever been. Our children will likely be in an even better place.
struct Node<'a, 'b, 'c> {
data1: &'a Data
data2: &'b Data
data3: &'c Data
}

Wow. It's like teaching C++ and starting from SFINAE. Or C# and starting from type parameter constraints.

Please think of a real-world examples when teaching stuff. I am very eager to see the program a beginner would need to write that requires: 1) references in a struct; 2) 3 separate lifetime parameters for the same struct.
Wait, that was a conspiracy theory in 2020, wasn't it? Does that mean China are part of a group of conspiracy practitioners?
People love things.
It is easy to say "consume less", it even easer if you add "and work less". It ease to give up something you recognize as a luxury: we can skip exotic holidays, use public transport, eat less meat, make more durable electronic, buy less clothes, go to restaurants less often, live in smaller houses. I am observing that there is always some 'deal breaker' - even for anti-consumerism people. In Poland it is often real estates - houses and flats are one of the most important expense in households budgets. "Consume less" means that society should build less new houses and people should live longer with their parents or have smaller apartments for their families. For other countries or areas the deal-breaker is to resign from private transport because there is no public transport alterative in countrysides.
the internet,
just pixels
when you have nobody with verifiable consciousness
one questions the existence

nothing is real
but my mind shouts consciousness!
a dilema
I mean, Go and Java have those properties, but achieve them using managed runtimes.

The first thing that crossed my mind reading this comment was Nim. It’s pretty Pythonesque (but that’s kinda what I hate about it.)
Duuuude yes! I adore your app. Do you have a tip jar or something?